Staff Writer - Boris is a staff writer focused on Eastern Europe, Russia and the ex-Soviet lubricant industry. Prior to joining Lubes’n’Greases in 2010, Boris was a Russia-based reporter for several Macedonian news outlets. He had a 16-month stint as a business reporter for The St. Petersburg Times and contributed analyses to an English-language outlet of RIA Novosti, a Russian state news agency. Boris often travels to St. Petersburg, Washington, D.C. and Skopje. Recently, he has also begun a part-time engagement as a foreign correspondent for North Macedonia’s state news agency, MIA.
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The fire-resistant synthetic turbine oils consumed in Russia are mostly imported products formulated with trixylenyl pho …
Kazakhstan’s Hill Group expects to break ground in Lithuania soon on an API Group II base oil rerefinery. The project …
Russia’s lubricant market stagnated in 2022, hampered by lower industrial output in sectors such as automobiles, machi …
Aiming to serve what it describes as a vibrant Algerian transportation market, petroleum products distributor Petro Bara …
Georgia imported almost 7,000 metric tons of finished lubricants from January through April of this year, up 7% compared …
Russia’s only polyalphaolefins complex now can also produce polyalkylene glycols and complex esters, after completing …
Base oil production by Lukoil fell 7% last year, while its finished lube output increased 2%, partly driven by its acqui …
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